{UAH} WHO ABANDONS SECOND PHASE OF PROBE AFTER HITTING ROAD BLOCK WITH CHINA

Behind Your Back: World Health Organization 'Secretly' Abandons Second Phase Of This Probe, After Hitting Roadblock With China

Written By BlabberBuzz | Thursday, 16 February 2023 22:45

After being denied access to investigators by China, the World Health Organization (WHO) has discontinued its investigation into the origin of COVID-19.

The World Health Organization began Phase 1 of its inquiry into the source of COVID-19 in 2021, dispatching experts to the source of the outbreak - Wuhan, China.

The research team put forth four potential outbreak scenarios in their initial report, with the least likely being the lab leak hypothesis. Even though it was considered unlikely, they planned to explore it further in their Phase 2 research. Now, China will not permit them to return, and the program has been abandoned.

As reported in Nature, in response to the report, the World Health Organization (WHO) circulated a memorandum to its member states discussing the four possible outbreak scenarios and how they would be investigated. However, the Chinese government declined to accept the

plan and stated that there was no reason to look into the laboratory leak hypothesis.

The team of researchers that ventured to Wuhan in 2021 asserted that the most plausible theory was that COVID-19 originated from bats, possibly through an intermediary species. Although China was in favor of this concept over the lab leak hypothesis, they were still hesitant to let the researchers return to test the infamous wet

markets and the farms that provided their goods.

The WHO and its researchers have been unable to make much progress in their inquiry due to the lack of access to China. According to Angela Rasmussen, a virologist from the University of

Saskatchewan, "Their hands are really tied."

According to Maria Van Kerkhove, an epidemiologist from the World Health Organization, and Gerald Keusch, associate director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory Institute, a shift in the political atmosphere is what caused China to block access to the WHO team. "The politics across the world of this really hampered progress on understanding the origins," said Van Kerkhove. Keusch argued that the process

was "poorly handled by the global community, which includes the WHO and China as well.

Van Kerkhove reported that the WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has endeavored to rebuild relations with Chinese

representatives, and personnel from the WHO have made contact with the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing.

Van Kerkhove expressed his deep frustration"over the current circumstances, noting, "We really, really want to be able to work with our colleagues" in China.

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